I had hoped – selfishly I’ll admit – that after her death, he would be able to forget her. This, however, was not the case. I sit beside him now, a stone’s throw away from Land’s End, on a makeshift wooden bench. Soft and brown, the bark having peeled off long ago; leaving behind a Read more […]

Where do we come from – What are we – Whither are we bound?1   * My name is Big-Head, and this is my Tale. The World is Flat. This is what I was told when I was little, and I knew it to be a truth once I had been taken to see it Read more […]

DINNER   ‘Happy birthday, laopo.’ Emmeline beamed, her soapy fingers trying not to drop the phone into the kitchen sink. Such tiny things, the phones these days! ‘Thank you, dear.’ ‘I’m sorry I can’t come home early this time. New boss, you know…’ ‘Of course, it’s okay. We’ll have dinner tonight.’ ‘The kids are back, Read more […]

My father said that he could hear them coming long before they arrived, long before they burst out of the bush, surrounded by villagers, the engine of their truck screaming, everything dipped in noise. He was twelve years old when they came – the same age as his father, my grandfather, had been when the Read more […]

Strong boots stomp the tarmac and stop right next to Geoff and me. Wet leather and sheep muck leap up my nose. There’s a strange hand in my fur, big-fingered. I lick the palm – urgh, tastes of engine oil. And the voice that belongs to the hand shouts over the beast in the sky: Read more […]

Emma Franieczek is currently working and living in the Cotswolds with her partner and two cats. She was born in Eastbourne, has moved around the south of England and has held many jobs including dancer, cabin crew, research assistant and store manager. She is known for her loud laugh and curly hair. Emma self-published her Read more […]

Elizabeth Mac Donald’s debut novel, A Matter of Interpretation, is being published by Fairlight Books in September 2019. Born in Dublin, Ireland, Elizabeth is an academic who now lives in Italy, where she teaches English at the University of Pisa. She is a widely published writer of short stories, essays and translations of literary works Read more […]

Alex Learmont was born in Scotland in 1942. He then emigrated to Zimbabwe in 1952. Now resident in Cape Town, Alex was active in film production between 1958 and 2018 as writer/director/cameraman in corporate communication, training, educational docudrama, international news and current affairs. Alex starter writing poetry in early 1960s, and was published in New Read more […]

Katherine Pringle grew up in Northern Ireland, but left at eighteen to study Graphic Design in London. She fell into publishing without really planning to, but it turned out to be the ideal career for her: she loves working with books and is happiest when she’s surrounded by shelves and shelves of them – the Read more […]

Judith Wilson is a published author and magazine journalist. She writes short stories and flash fiction, and is at work on a new historical novel. She lives in London, but is often inspired to write about Liverpool and its environs, where she grew up. She has also written fourteen non-fiction books on interiors and design. Read more […]